LISBON: Portuguese prosecutors have detained a rabbi and carried out raids over the naturalisation process of a number of Jewish people, including Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea football club. Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service said late Friday that it has detained the leader of Porto’s Jewish community, Daniel Litvak, as part of their investigation … Read more
PARIS: Atletico Madrid won a bad-tempered game in Porto on Tuesday to qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League as Liverpool and Ajax both completed the group stage with 100 per cent records. Diego Simeone’s Atletico, who lost to Real Madrid in the 2014 and 2016 finals, needed to beat Porto in Portugal … Read more
MILAN: Junior Messias’ composure in his first season at AC Milan should come as no surprise despite the former delivery man’s remarkable rise from amateur football to the Champions League. As recently as 2019, Brazilian Messias was plying his trade in Italy’s third-tier Serie C, a past in local leagues and a former job shifting fridges not that … Read more
Star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and Dejan Kulusevski will lead the Juventus front line in Wednesday’s Champions League last-16 first leg tie at Portuguese side Porto. Sweden’s Kulusevski got the permission ahead of Alvaro Morata, who starts on the bench, together with Ronaldo who plays his first Juve game in his native Portugal. Ronaldo, the competition’s … Read more
